NCT03110120

Interest of Serratus Plane Block in Postoperative Analgesia for Robot-assisted Surgery

Interest of Serratus Plane Block in Postoperative Analgesia for Patients Undergoing Robot-assisted Mitral Valve Repair, MIDCAB or Partial Lung Resection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare the analgesia provided by the serratus plane block with local infiltration of the orifices of the trocars after thoracic robot-assisted surgery.

Detailed description

In our hospital, the current practice to provide post operative analgesia for patients scheduled for robot-assisted mitral repair or oncological thoracic surgery is to dispense local anesthetics at the orifices of the trocars at the end of the surgery and to give a Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA). Some of these patients are not comfortable and we observe a large percentage of chronic pain. Recently we tried to use the Serratus plane block realised before the beginning of the surgery, and it seemed that patients were more comfortable with a lower consumption of morphine. So we decided to perform a double blind, randomized study in this population of patients to compare the analgesia provided by the serratus plane block realized before the beginning of the surgery and the local infiltration of the wound at the end of the surgery.

Conditions

• Analgesia
• Robotic Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	0.5% levobupivacaine injectable solution with 10 ml of physiological saline	Serratus plane block realized with a mixture of 10 ml of 0.5% levobupivacaine injectable solution with 10 ml of physiological saline
DRUG	0.5% levobupivacaine injectable solution with 10 ml of physiological saline	local infiltration of the wound with a mixture of 10 ml of 0.5% levobupivacaine injectable solution with 10 ml of physiological saline
DRUG	0.5% levobupivacaine injectable solution with physiological saline	Serratus plane block realized with 20 ml of injectable solution of physiological saline
DRUG	0.5% levobupivacaine injectable solution with physiological saline	local infiltration of the wound with 20 ml of injectable solution of physiological saline

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2017-04-12
• Last updated: 2017-10-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium